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The Firm

by John Grisham

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Dell Publishing Company (1992), Mass Market Paperback, 501 pages

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Klasse Thriller.: Eigentlich ist es der Traumjob für jeden Anwalt, doch der Traum entwickelt sich sehr bald zu einem regelrechten Albtaum, nur dass man aus dem von John Grisham nicht aufwachen kann.DIE FIRMA von Meister-Autor John Grisham ist wieder einmal ein Meisterwerk für sich.
Es fängt alles ganz gemächlich an, doch die Spannung steigert sich von Seite zu Seite, bis es am Ende fast aus dem Ruder läuft.
Der Spannungsboden spitzt sich am Ende derart zu, dass man als Leser eigentlich gar nicht mehr aufhören möchte zu lesen, bis man endlich weiß, wie die Geschichte zu Ende geht.Bis hierhin hätte DIE FIRMA eigentlich 5 Sterne verdient. Allerdings ist die Thematik Grishams nicht mehr aktuell, und die von ihm dargestelle Handlung auch nicht mehr neu.
DIE AKTE (auch von Grisham) hat fast den selben Handlungsverlauf; abgesehen von den Charakteren.
Beide Male wissen die Hauptdarsteller etwas, dass die Bösewichte in Bedrängnis bringt, welche daraufhin ihre Topkiller anweisen, die Guten umzulegen. Die wenden bekommen dann Hilfe und so geht alles gut aus.
Einen Punkt abzug für diese enormen Parallelen.
  r1hard | Nov 22, 2009 |
This was the first Grisham novel I read. I loved it. I can't wait to own it again. ( )
  Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 |
Starts off well, but then falls apart — in my opinion — during the last third of the story. I don't really care for Grisham's too-clever-by-half hero types who outwit everyone around them and disappear with a big haul of cash to retire on. McDeere vs. the Firm? Great. McDeere vs. the FBI? Bleah. ( )
  baroquem | Oct 28, 2009 |
I should not have read this so soon after The Client. They have way too much in common, not the least of which being the incessant repetition of the phrase, "the mob never forgets." That said, it's still an okay legal thriller. Not great, but it helped the commute go by. ( )
  melydia | Oct 28, 2009 |
A classic. This book has it all - fast-moving plot, characters you care about, some surprises in the end. ( )
  joyceclark | Sep 8, 2009 |
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The senior partner studied the résumé for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper.
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At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had  his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly  mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with  Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he  and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The  firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans,  arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator.  Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother  Ray -- doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail --  already knew. You never get nothing for nothing.  Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and  needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a  hard place, with no choice -- if he wants to live.

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